2026 JF Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Christine Morgan, after several traumatic life-upheavals, is now enjoying the peace and quiet of the remote high desert, with her dad and the cats for company. Author of the Splatterpunk Award winning LAKEHOUSE INFERNAL as well as many other works, she also writes, reviews, and edits. Her penchant for weird crafts and baking led to her being dubbed “the Martha Stewart of horror.” She has way more toys, sharks and dinosaurs than someone of her age probably should.
Aron Beauregard was born and raised in Central Falls, Rhode Island. He’s been writing horror since the 6th grade and has now released over 30 books. His style of writing is dark and without boundaries, often garnering outrage and controversy. His work has been translated into multiple languages, and he’s won two Splatterpunk Awards. He has achieved #1 Bestseller status in horror on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
To get the latest updates about upcoming releases, signed books and merchandise, film news, and so much more, visit his website.
Gigi Saul Guerrero has been praised as one of the top, emerging directors in the horror genre by Empire, Dread Central, Fangoria and Bloody Disgusting. Guerrero is co-founder of Luchagore Productions In Vancouver Canada.
Guerrero also directed an action-packed episode for THE PURGE season 2. Her feature debut CULTURE SHOCK for Blumhouse Productions Television, winner of Best Primetime movie at IMAGEN AWARDS and it is still 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Now recently genre-bending fun flick Bingo Hell is on Amazon Prime where she co-wrote with our very own Shane McKenzie and directed.
She is also an actress and most commonly known for her voice over work such as STELLA in NETFLIX Angry Birds, SUPER MONSTERS, MARVEL SUPERHERO ADVENTURES as Spider-Girl, and fan favourite character Varzia on Warfare video game.
Adam Cesare is a New Yorker who lives in Philadelphia. He studied English and film at Boston University.
He is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning Clown in a Cornfield series, the graphic novel Dead Mall, and several other novels and novellas including the cult hit Video Night. An avid fan of horror cinema, you can talk movies with him on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, and the rest of his socials.
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